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Late-night post-recording smile-town pasta-fagioli hyphen party with Mike Tuccillo: master of bass, risotto, and the art of wordlessly compelling strangers to buy him beer, just by visually reminding them of Bob Ross.
I'M SORRY. Will you just look at these two dumb faces?? Goddamn I miss tour. Also, sometimes I have dreams about Mike's risotto.
Have you learned alot about the biz talking to owners of the venues? or just generally other artists
Yeah! I really did learn a lot by working with and talking to venue owners and concert promoters. It taught me a lot about what's awesome and what's not so awesome about the touring industry. When you're traveling to venues all across the country it really makes you appreciate when they get it right - a friendly promoter and awesome sound guy go a long way.
I also totally lucked out with Jenny, Mike, and Elliot. They're all really smart and know a thing or two about touring and the music industry. Being able to hear them talk about their own experiences gave me a kind of unique insight into the musician's perspective, which you rarely get in a college classroom.
When you're tour managing (or artist managing too I suppose) you're basically working as the middle man between the artist and the business, so being able to understand both perspectives is really important. I learned A LOT on this tour, and I can't wait to get back on the road because I feel like I have so much more to learn, you know? LEARNING!
Photo of intense drum battle between @JennyOwenYoungs and myself at Mercury Lounge last Friday. Photo by Gina Asprocolas. The best way to end an amazing tour.
Finally I am all haircut and drum sticks.
FLOOR TOM!
What was your favorite city and/or the strangest thing you encountered on the tour?
You know, a lot of people have asked me my favorite city and it's really hard to choose one. I really didn't get to see too much of any one city (except Portland) because there wasn't much down time. I mostly gauge cities on how nice the venue was and what the hotel was like. BUT ANYWAY, the highlights for me were probably Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Austin - but all for different reasons.
Chicago because the crowd was awesome and I got to see my friend Meg from high school.
Seattle because we ate really good sushi, drank awesome coffee, and tractor tavern is a really cool venue.
Portland because we actually had time to hang out there, the city itself was really weird, but the again the coffee was ridiculous, the venue/hotel was AWESOME, and the DOUGHNUTS.
San Francisco because the crowd was awesome and, you know, it's San Francisco.
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Austin because the BBQ was insane, the crowd was awesome, the venue was really cool AND I drank some really good coffee at this place that kind of looked like someone's living room?
Also, strangest thing I encountered (this is kind of gross) but somewhere I believe in Texas there was a rest stop bathroom with two toilets right next to each other. No door or anything. It was PRETTY WEIRD.
Well, in honor of not doing my homework I posted some videos from the 3/15 show at The Red Palace in DC. "Wake Up" is one of my favorites on An Unwavering Band of Light. Crazy that it was only two weeks ago, seems like ONE MILLION YEARS.
I also put up "Pirates" and "Already Gone" and oh my god I miss being on tour so much.
How did you get this internship w/ Jenny? I would kill for it.
WELL. I go to Northeastern where they are really into you getting real world experience in the field that you are majoring in. So last January through June I was doing my second six-month co-op (aka internship) in New York City at ATO Records and Red Light Management (which was awesome). I saw that Jenny tweeted about needing an intern and thought, "I mean I would probably be good at this, and it seems like it could be cool, and I'm in New York so I might as well..." so I emailed her my resumé, we met, and it went from there!
As much as I would never admit this to her face, she is kind of an awesome boss.
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Questions! Feel free to ask them if you have them! Apparently I have to give a presentation in my senior seminar class about what I learned and stuff while on tour, so I’d be interested to know what people actually want to know about, you know?
Are you 21 yet? If not, how do you get in to all of Jenny's concerts because some are 21+, right? (I am just a curious creature)
Oh hey thanks for asking! You make me feel so young! I am 21, have been for almost a year, so that makes things easier.
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Questions! Feel free to ask them if you have them! Apparently I have to give a presentation in my senior seminar class about what I learned and stuff while on tour, so I'd be interested to know what people actually want to know about, you know?
So remember that time...
I started a blog about tour, and kept up with it for a little bit, and then totally slacked?? Because I do. Turns out being on the road is pretty time consuming.
Anyway, I have a bunch of videos and pictures to post so just know that will happen eventually. In the meantime, I've been home for a little less than a week and I'm pretty ready to be back on tour. Luckily I've been able to suspend my official entrance back into the real world another few days because I'll be meeting Jenny, Mike, and Elliot in Providence tomorrow and traveling with them until we're back in Boston on Saturday.
If these last few days have been any indication, when this tour is over for real I am going to need to find some SERIOUS motivation to make it through this last semester. Post-tour senioritis is not the best.
But, classes end in less than a month and graduation is 42 days away, so I will PROBABLY be able to tough it out.
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cc: Jenny Owen Youngs, Madi Daigle, Mike Tuccillo
My life basically revolves around pancakes.
The majestic Mike Tuccillo scaling the only thing that stood between us and the football he threw into a gated parking lot. Even though he risked his life retrieving it, his catch privileges are still revoked.
PICTURES. I've been prettty lazy about posting/tweeting these SO HERE GOES (L to R):
- BREAKFAST! My life basically revolves around it. This was a banana rose waffle I had a Guerilla Café in Berkeley, CA. It was something to behold.
- In case you can't read this, it says meat jerky. There's deer, bison, elk, KANGAROO. You know, the usual. Found at some random gas station in California.
- Really awesome old piano at the Bootleg in LA!
- Ridiculous courtyard of an apartment in LA
- TERRIFYING vista point on the coast of California on the way to San Diego. Full of extremely friendly seagulls... too friendly.
- Shortly after the terrifying vista point, we made it to the real beach and it was GLORIOUS. The OCEAN, am I right you guys?
- More Pacific Ocean.
- SEALS. Oh man, they are such funny animals. I love how they just flop around.
Right now Jenny and Mike are playing in Phoenix at the Crescent Ballroom, and tomorrow we make the 15 hour trek to Austin! Awww yeah!
Oh man! I forgot about this video for a second. A few days ago Jenny did an in store at Armadillo Music in Davis, CA, which is an awesome, awesome place. We also got to tour the UC Davis radio station where they have a disgusting amount of records. It was pretty dang cool.
This was also the fateful day that Elliot Jacobson purchased Fly by the Dixie Chicks and forever altered the course of this tour. About a minute into this video you'll see him hard at work selecting the best discount records Armadillo had to offer.
Jenny, Mike, and Elliot wailing away on "Sleep Machine" at Audie's Olympic in Fresno the other night. That crowd was pretty feisty.
Also, Johnny (one of the promoters there) is the man. He bought us snacks.
Just learnin’ about driving through California from Madi… who’s from Maine.
Oh you know, just sharing my wealth of knowledge about how to properly hit animals with cars.
OH MAN. I feel like so much has happened in the past three days, but I remember NONE of it, you know? I guess here are the things I do remember:
- Complete and total day off in Portland, no show, no driving, just lots of homeless people, Voodoo Doughnuts, large bookstores and Stumptown coffee. Portland is a crazy, but glorious place.
- 7.5 hour drive yesterday featuring EXTENSIVE and HILARIOUS Lana Del Rey impressions from Jenny. Seriously. I'm laughing right now just thinking about it.
- MOUNTAINS. There are so many of them!
- Right now we're in Sacramento and the weather is AMAZING. Pretty excited about the next week or so we're spending in California.
(High quality blackberry pics clockwise: Doug Fir green room, Portland riverfront, more Portland riverfront, cock n' balls from Voodoo Doughnuts)
DRUM CAM!!!
This is a bird’s-eye view of drummer Elliot Jacobson playing “Pirates” with me and bassist Mike Tuccillo. Filmed at Record Bar in Kansas City on 2/13/12 as part of the UNWAVERING BAND OF LIGHT album release tour. Fists of fury!! Elliot uses Yamaha drums, Sabian cymbals, Evans drum heads, Vater sticks, and LP percussion. Learn more about Elliot: http://www.elliot-jacobson.com
This is the first installment of tour videos… stay in the loop by subscribing to my channel at http://www.youtube.com/jennyowenyoungs !!
Drum Cam is the best kind of cam!! Elliot Jacobson is a BEAST.
TRACTOR TAVERN!!! Is an awesome venue. They also made us some real Seattle coffee and I am feeling VERY caffeinated right now.
Above you'll see some high quality blackberry photos of what I've seen of Seattle so far. Basically some rain, a mural of a unicorn with a guitar and a black eye, and a GIANT PORTRAIT OF A HORSE. With lightning. So.
